Dad honors wife's breastfeeding with boob cakes that leak
by Sara McGinnis posted in Parenting
For Ross, a dad-of-one living in the UK, his daughter's first birthday meant more than her having been born a year ago -- it was cause to celebrate his wife breastfeeding for 365 long days. So he while she made their daughter Isabelle a traditional cake, he got creative.
Just take a look:
"I don't even care if you find that weird," Ross hilariously says as one of his boob cakes manages out a trickle of watery icing. "That's breastfeeding! Sometimes you just sit there and milk comes out."
He's not wrong, right"! Oh, the joys of leaky breasts.
"Breastfeeding is bloody hard work," Ross went on to write in a blog post. "Don't get me wrong, I'm a man. So I don't actually know what it's like from a personal level. But I've been there every step of the way of my wife's journey. And I've seen the struggle that she?s had to go through to get to this point."
From the beginning Ross leapt into the role of personal butler for his wife as she learned to breastfeed, fetching food, water, and nipple cream in the middle of the night "even if it was absurdly overpriced." Though they're all thankful nursing has since become second nature, Ross doesn't want to minimize what his wife went though.
"It's so easy to forget about those early day moments where it was such a challenge," he went on to write. "The screaming, and the crying, sometimes not just from Isabelle. When I see Isabelle...
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